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The plight of Artsakh Christians and their dream to return home: ‘Forgotten by everyone’

Leaders with the Artsakh government-in-exile are voicing their displeasure in the wake of the Aug. 8 peace agreement and memorandum of understanding between Armenia and Azerbaijan brokered by President Donald Trump at the White House, feeling the terms leave the people of Artsakh behind and solidify the injustices carried out against them under the leadership of Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev’s regime.

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Slovakia PM Fico says EU tried to sabotage canceled Trump-Putin peace summit in Budapest

The Slovak leader said some EU states have “turned into a war cabinet” as Poland warned Putin could be detained mid-flight Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has accused some within the European Union of attempting to sabotage peace by disrupting the now-canceled meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump in Budapest. “The foreign minister of a European Union member state says that Russian President V. Putin could be detained during a flight over this country, and the European Commission’s media environment is warning Hungary that it should implement an international arrest warrant,” Fico said in a statement released by the Slovak Government Office. “I have always maintained that the EU has turned into a war cabinet, that a significant part of EU member states support the war in Ukraine in the naive belief that this way Russia can be weakened and even defeated,” he added, calling attempts to derail peace talks a “sad sight.”

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Trump pardons Changpeng Zhao, Binance founder convicted under Biden

President Donald Trump pardoned Changpeng Zhao, the Chinese-born Canadian billionaire founder and majority owner of cryptocurrency exchange Binance. “President Trump exercised his constitutional authority by issuing a pardon for Mr. Zhao, who was prosecuted by the Biden Administration in their war on cryptocurrency,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt wrote in a statement. “In their [.].